Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

This shocking challenge to our understanding of sadness and anxiety comes from the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs.

The renowned writer Johann Hari began taking antidepressants as a youngster after developing depression when he was a young kid. Like everyone in his age, he was informed that a chemical imbalance in his brain was the source of his illness. After receiving training in the social sciences as an adult, he started looking into this issue and discovered that almost all of the information that has been spread regarding anxiety and depression is false.

Hari found social scientists working across the globe who were figuring out the true reasons, most of which have less to do with our brains and more to do with the way we live now. Through his travels, Hari saw people living in the tunnels under Las Vegas, an Amish village in Indiana, and a Berlin uprising—all of which vividly and dramatically illustrated his new concepts. They lead to conclusions that are drastically unlike from those that have been presented to us so far.

Lost Connections will take us to a totally new discourse about depression and anxiety—one that demonstrates how, collectively, we can solve this epidemic—much as Chasing the Scream revolutionised the worldwide debate about addiction with over twenty million views for his TED presentation and the animation based on it.